The installation features six women whose lives and stories represent different facets of courage. Among them is Shirel Haim Pour, a 22-year-old Persian Jew murdered in the October 7 assault. A new ...

Shakespeare & Company will stage the world premiere of Awni Abdi-Bahri's Three Tall Persian Women, directed by Dalia Ashurina, at the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre from August 30 through October 13.

LENOX — Shakespeare & Company is transitioning from its summer schedule to fall with a world premiere — “Three Tall Persian Women” by Awni Abdi-Bahri. Set in the present in the Southern California ...

The setting is the Southern California home of a 60something widow, Nasrin (Niousha Noor), on the day of “mehmooni” — a one-year anniversary funeral gathering — of Nasrin’s husband, Manny. Nasrin’s ...

Shakespeare & Company will present the World Premiere of Awni Abdi-Bahri's Three Tall Persian Women, directed by Dalia Ashurina and staged at the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre from August 30 through ...

“Persian Jewish melodies, to my knowledge, never have been transcribed,” and Cantor Jacqueline Rafii of Valley Beth Shalom has made it a life goal of her unique career to correct that absence. As one ...

In February, Hooman Khalili, an Iranian-born Christian artist and filmmaker, unveiled a mural at the Jerusalem Museum of Tolerance in Israel. The artwork honored two women: Shirel Haim-Pour, a 20-year ...

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“Three Tall Persian Women” is a very, very funny comedy about assimilation that is now rockin’ the Bernstein Stage in its world premiere at Shakespeare & Company. The play was developed in the Plays ...